Transfix, named one of Forbes' "Next Billion-Dollar Startups" in 2018, is the leading freight marketplace that's transforming the $800 billion trucking industry, connecting shippers to a national network of reliable carriers. Fortune 500 companies such as Anheuser-Busch, Unilever, and Target rely on Transfix to handle their most important FTL freight needs. With instant pricing tools, guaranteed capacity, data-driven insights, and reliable service, Transfix is changing the world of transportation one load at a time. Join us, and leave a positive impact on the environment as we help reduce the carbon footprint caused by the 65 billion wasted miles on the road.

Based in New York City, Transfix is backed by top VC firms including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Canvas Ventures, and Lerer Hippeau.

The problems we solve everyday are real and require creativity, grit, and determination. We are building a culture that challenges norms while fostering experimentation and personal growth. We're hiring team members who are passionate and are energized by the vision to simplify and transform one of the largest and most complex industries through technology, data and a strong commitment to customers.

As a Transfix Supply Chain Analyst, you will be responsible for optimizing our improving and expanding our freight brokerage service utilizing truckloads of data. This role is responsible for analyzing operational performance across quality, productivity, and cost, as well as owning the organization-wide Sales & Operating Plan process by driving capacity planning across the business. This role will improve our ability to forecast capacity needs and consistently cover loads in order to smooth the impact of spikes, seasonality, and volume volatility. This function is also intended to use forecast accuracy improvements to lower variable cost planning accuracy, which in turn will reduce overall cost. 

You will have the opportunity to identify big problems and develop best in class solutions to manage and optimize our service end-to-end planning. At Transfix, you will be expected to autonomously run your own projects, drive business impact, and be a domain expert for teams across the company.

If you’re excited about transforming an industry, being part of an innovative culture, and making a positive impact on the environment, send us your resume.

What you'll do:

• Create, implement, and continuously improve scorecards that provide meaningful and actionable insights into each component of our supply chain, allowing our team to have real-time, fact-based conversations that lead to improved business performance
• Ensure that our leaders have the information needed to monitor, measure, and manage our operations
• Lead analytical studies into our operations and produce dissertation-level quality insights that can be turned into a roadmap for business leaders
• Proactively implement processes and tools to improve the operational effectiveness of the organization
• Partner closely with Finance and Data teams to track and report on every dollar spent in operations, creating and sharing insights with Operations and Finance teams
• Review and analyze gathered data to locate areas in the supply chain process and develop methods to improve
• Form cross-functional project teams, planning and organizing, managing, and executing complex projects across multiple organizations and stakeholders
• Partnering with key functional leaders experts across the company to lead, support, and influence new business initiatives
• Translate complex math into easy-to-understand, visually-engaging, and actionable insights

About you:

• You have a Bachelor’s degree in a STEM or quantitative field
• You love data and have at least two years of professional experience in quantitative analysis and problem solving
• Experience with data querying languages (e.g. SQL), and statistical/mathematical software & methods (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.)
• You are comfortable working in high-paced, impact-driven environments
• Ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• You are an effective communicator that can draft compelling analytical reports as well as clearly communicate a concept to executives in a meeting.

To all recruitment agencies: Transfix does not accept unsolicited agency resumes and will not be held responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.